Best practices and cautions while creating custom AMIs

There are best practices and cautions to consider while creating custom AMIs to ensure you are creating a secure, efficient, and consistent environment for your EC2 instances.

Best practices while creating custom AMIs

You can follow the practices described here to gain a great level of confidence in ensuring that launching and managing your EC2 instances is a robust process:

• Update and patch: Before you begin creating your custom AMI, always start by ensuring that your underlying operating system is up to date with the latest patches and security updates. This will allow you to ensure your custom AMI is free from any security and operational issues.
• Minimize AMI size: You can improvise your instance launch times by minimizing the size of your custom AMI. Always ensure you are removing any unnecessary files, temporary data, and other cached content before generating your AMI. Also, where possible, compress the...